Today we launch our new special issue, "Children and Youth Migrants in Middle East and North African History," featuring guest editors Ella Fratantuono and Lucia Carminati !

Happy to share that my book, Syria’s Transnational Rebellion, is now available for pre-order with Edinburgh University Press ! The book comes out just in time to mark the one hundred year anniversary of the 1925 Great Syrian Revolt. Enter code NEW30 for a discount. :) edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-syria-s-t…

My latest peer reviewed article is out now in the latest issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East! Based on my dissertation & book manuscript, I examine the role of infrastructure, medical philanthropy, and sectarianism in 20th century Cairo.

Apparently, my book is Amazon's #1 pick for new releases in Syria History...Get your copy straight from Edinburgh University Press ! 📖 🙏

Several things can be true at once: Al Hijri’s militia is an Israeli backed ally of Assad with its own agenda, the Syrian army is riddled with Sunni sectarianism, Israel wants to destabilise Syria, patriotic Syrians expect far better conduct from the Syrian army, and rightly so

Some great pieces inside our latest issue. Check it out.

Anas Al Sharif was born in 1996. He was 4 when the Second Intifada began in 2000. He was 11 when Israel imposed the blockade on Gaza in 2007. He was 12 during Cast Lead in 2008–2009. He was 18 during the 2014 assault on Gaza. He was 29 when Israel assassinated him in 2025.

To all who do Syrian studies, please help us spread the word! The Syrian Studies Association Association has issued its call for prize nominations! It's dissertations and articles this round!

"All the anti-Semitic tropes are true and accurate, but about Arabs".

Congratulations to Beeta Baghoolizadeh, whose book "The Color Black" has been named the winner of the Wesley-Logan Prize, given by American Historical Association. buff.ly/FkkOJqg buff.ly/t4daJG0

From thinking about transnational solidarity in the Syrian past to its present, I’m so looking forward to reading this book. Big congrats Dr. Noor Ghazal Aswad !

I’m resharing this in hopes we get more nominations!